Reconstruction of wind and surge of the 1906 storm tide at the German North Sea coast

Meyer, Elke Magda Inge; Weisse, Ralf; Grabemann, Iris; Tinz, Birger; Scholz, Robert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2419-2022

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Coastal hazards and hydro-meteorological extremes

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Reconstruction of wind and surge of the 1906 storm tide at the German North Sea coast

Elke Magda Inge Meyer, Ralf Weisse, Iris Grabemann, Birger Tinz, and Robert Scholz

Data sets

Reconstruction of the 1906 Storm Tide in the German Bright using TRIM-NP, FES2004, and DWD weather data Elke M. I. Meyer, Robert Scholz, and Birger Tinz https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/storm_tide_1906_DWD_reconstruct

Reconstruction of the 1906 Storm Tide in the German Bright using TRIM-NP, FES2004, and ECMWF ERA-20C and CERA-20C reanalyses data Elke M. I. Meyer https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/storm_tide_1906_ERA-CLIM

Reconstruction of the 1906 Storm Tide in the German Bright using TRIM-NP, FES2004, and NOAA-CIRES-DOE Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR) version 2c and 3 Elke M. I. Meyer https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/storm_tide_1906_20CR

Video supplement

The storm tide in March 1906 Elke M. I. Meyer, Ralf Weisse, and Michael Böttinger https://doi.org/10.5446/49529

Short summary

The severe storm tide of 13 March 1906 is still one of the most severe storm events for the East Frisian coast. Water levels from this event are considered for designing dike lines. For the first time, we investigate this event with a hydrodynamic model by forcing with atmospheric data from 147 ensemble members from century reanalysis projects and a manual reconstruction of the synoptic situation. Water levels were notably high due to a coincidence of high spring tides and high surge.